9 Aug
1999
9 Aug
'99
9:42 a.m.
Chuck McManis wrote:
Another classic computer maker "bites" the
dust.
See: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,40250,00.html
Which is a news.com story about how EMC (makers of storage products mostly)
will buy Data General for 1.1 billion in stock. This was the last of the
great mini-computer companies that had been left standing after DEC was
bought by Compaq.
I'm looking for other examples, but I believe this leaves IBM (System 360)
and Sun (SPARC) as the last two companies who designed their own computer
architecture still standing under their own name. (I don't count Xerox
since they don't sell their D-series machines any more).
Companies known to have gone away:
DEC
Data General
Tandem
Prime
What about MIPS recently de merged from SGI. Then there is ARM,
Motorola, Intel if you count microprocessors (you listed Sparc) as
opposed to microcontrollers which would add a whole slew of other
companies like National, Microchip, Atmel...
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